Microsoft has pulled support for Internet Explorer and will redirect the handful of people who still use it to Edge instead. IE was launched in August 1995, a few months after Netscape Navigator and five years after the web browser was invented. Part of every Windows installation, it quickly gained popularity, peaking at around 95 percent of the market. But Microsoft didn’t keep pace with technological advancements and it was outclassed by Chrome in 2008. IE’s market share evaporated and Microsoft switched focus to the Edge browser in 2015, which has hardly sparkled. Today, Chrome is the king of browsers; somehow Microsoft managed to lose the desktop browser wars. –CL